Korean Studies, vol. 33 (2009)

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Cultural Change in Korean Films

Transitional Emotions: Boredom and Distraction in Hong Sang-su’s Travel Films
Youngmin Choe, 1

This article explores the cultural significance of boredom and distraction in postmodern Korea by focusing on Hong Sang-su’s holiday films. It posits that Hong’s films about characters attempting to escape from the banalities of urban life can be seen to reveal, stylistically and thematically, the emotions and anxieties unleashed by excessive leisure in neoliberal Korea. By re-casting the absence of events in Hong’s films as an existing affect of lacking, it challenges the adequacy of pre-existing affective paradigms in the understanding of boredom in neoliberal Korea. In recognition of the transient stage in which boredom as emotion finds itself, it proposes categorizing emotions at such historical junctures as ‘‘transitional emotions,’’ drawing on theories that socialize rather than psychologize emotion by locating them as circulating intersubjectively.

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Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 1 (2010)

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Potential Economic Damage from Introduction of Brown Tree Snakes, Boiga irregularis (Reptilia: Colubridae), to the Islands of Hawai‘i
Stephanie A. Shwiff, Karen Gebhardt, Katy N. Kirkpatrick, and Steven S. Shwiff, 1-10

The Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) has caused ecological and economic damage to Guam, and the snake has the potential to colonize other islands in the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 1 (2010)”

Holiday Season Closure

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Manoa, vol. 21, no. 2 (2009): Lucky Come Hawaii

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Lucky Come Hawaii: a novel of December 7, 1941, by Jon Shirota

For Kama Gusuda—the main character in Jon Shirota’s classic novel—the morning starts like any other on his Maui pig farm. By the time the sun has set, however, Japanese fighter planes have filled the skies over Pearl Harbor, bringing war to the Pacific and trouble to the lives of immigrants in Hawai‘i. The attack causes conflict among neighbors and within families, whose honor, loyalty and sense of tradition are tested as never before.

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The Contemporary Pacific, vols. 1-10 (1989-1998): Online Index

Index to vols. 1-10 (1989-1998)
compiled by Linley Chapman and Heather Stanton

University of Hawai‘i ScholarSpace logoBack issues of The Contemporary Pacific are now available online in the University of Hawai‘i Library’s ScholarSpace digital repository. Titles in the index below are linked to their article “handles” (URLs) in ScholarSpace.

Entries are arranged in a single alphabetical list, with items indexed by volume and inclusive page numbers (1:43-74). Names of AUTHORS are in capital letters. Titles of articles are reproduced as they appeared, followed by the last name of the author in parentheses. Alphabetization ignores initial articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. Each article is listed by title, last name of (first) author, approximately five subject categories, and appropriate place names. Where articles had more than one author, secondary authors are listed by last name only, with cross-references to the primary author. Dialogue and Resources items are indexed as articles. Political Reviews are listed under the name of the political entity and the last name of the author. Titles of books are in italics. Place names (mostly of political units or regions) are in boldface type. Books reviewed are listed only by last name of (first) author, with the last name of the reviewer in parentheses following the book title, and cross references from the reviewer.

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Biography, vol. 32, no. 3 (2009)

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ARTICLES

Between Candor and Concealment: Willa Cather and (Auto)Biography
Janis P. Stout, 467

Willa Cather’s noted convictions about privacy existed in tension with her more recently understood engagement in self-publicity. This tension is mirrored in her ambivalent thinking about the genres of biography and autobiography. The two genres became a deeply conflicted site for her, and one that often produced self-contradictions. Although Cather took steps to preserve her privacy late in life, she also manifested impulses toward self-writing.

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China Review International, vol. 15, no. 3 (2008)

FEATURES

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law
Reviewed by Christopher Lupke, 315

Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2. The Calm Before the Storm 1951–1955; Hsiao-ting Lin, Tibet and Nationalistic China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–1949
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld, 325

Xiaoxi Li, editor, Assessing the Extent of China’s Marketization; Shuanglin Lin and Shunfeng Song, editors, The Revival of Private Enterprise in China; Keming Yang, Entrepreneurship in China
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 330

Daniel A. Bell, China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society; K. K. Yeo, Musing with Confucius and Paul: Toward a Chinese Christian Theology
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 349

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Pacific Science vols. 1-54 (1947-2000) Now Online

The final missing issues of Pacific Science vols. 1 (1947) through 54 (2000) have now been added to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library‘s ScholarSpace digital repository, which is available by open access. Most of the content is still under UH Press copyright, but can now be much more easily searched, cited, and linked to than ever before, thanks to a cooperative project of the UH Library and the UH Press that began in 2008.